I was at a mechanic, and I saw a smart car, absolutely annihilated from an accident (don’t know what the owner was hoping this guy could do). At the same time, I got to see a Mercedes A class.
We didn’t get these in the United States, and I know that Mercedes was responsible for the smart, so I just wondered why would Mercedes give us a smart death trap, when they could’ve just given us an A class?

4 stars, and this is the even smaller Fortwo. Smart cars are just as safe as your average hatchbacks, even if they look like they’ve been smashed completely. The passenger compartment is an extremely well engineered steel structure.

Here’s a vid as well:

Maaaaybe I clinged onto this small thing a bit too much, but I was just proving a point.

It’s not bad to cling onto that. It is a common misconception that a car that crumples on the outside is less safe than a car that stays rigid but at the end of the day a smashed exterior is a sign of energy leaving the car, without that the whole blunt goes to the passengers organs and neck.

While you may be forgiven for thinking that the Casa Blanca was a special edition done up by Mitsuoka, Japan's primary arbiter of great taste in vehicles, it was in fact a product of the Subaru people themselves.

They were actually trying too hard to make the rear look like it came from an F1 car, faux diffuser and all, and on an ordinary three-box sedan like the Impreza, that just doesn’t work. It makes the 22B seem understated and tasteful by comparison: